Modals and Quasi-modals in English
Published on 1. January 2009
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-90-420-2532-5 (ISBN)
Description
Modals and Quasi-modals in English reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the modals and a set of semantically-related 'quasi-modals' in English. The study is the largest and most comprehensive to date in this area, and is informed by recent developments in the study of modality, including grammaticalization and recent diachronic change. The selection of the parallel corpora used, representing British, American and Australian English, was designed to facilitate the exploration of both regional and stylistic variation.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is an excellent and timely quantitative study, and a solid starting point for further research" in: English Language and Linguistics, Vol. 17/1 (2013)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
492 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2532-5 (9789042025325)
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Person
Peter Collins is Associate Professor in Linguistics and Head of the Linguistics Department at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics, and helped compile the first corpus of Australian English. He has published widely in corpus linguistics and descriptive grammar.
Content
Preface
Introduction
Theoretical preliminaries
Necessity and obligation
Possibility, permission and ability
Prediction and volition
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index
Introduction
Theoretical preliminaries
Necessity and obligation
Possibility, permission and ability
Prediction and volition
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index